multiparous

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ -parous

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌlˈtɪpəɹəs/

Adjective

multiparous

1. Having two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring.
2. Producing several offspring at one time.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]

Derived terms

• great grand multiparous

Translations

having two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring

• Hungarian: multipara, többször szült
• Icelandic: (multiparous woman) fjölbyrja f

producing several offspring at one time

• Manx: yl-aalagh, yl-heelreeagh